Pokemon Sword
Forge a Path to Greatness!
Begin your adventure as a Pokémon Trainer by choosing one of three new partner Pokémon: Grookey, Scorbunny, or Sobble. Then embark on a journey in the new Galar region, where you’ll challenge the troublemakers of Team Yell, while unraveling the mystery behind the Legendary Pokémon Zacian and Zamazenta! Explore the Wild Area, a vast expanse of land where the player can freely control the camera. Team up with three other players locally or online in the new multiplayer co-op Max Raid Battles* in which players will face off against gigantic and super-strong Pokémon known as Dynamax Pokémon.
Certain Pokémon can even Gigantamax to gain a new look and a powerful set of G-Max moves. But there’s more to being a champion than honing your battle skills: you can pick your own clothes and get a new hairdo while visiting the stores in town, so you can be the Trainer you want to be. Throughout your journey, you’ll encounter newly discovered Pokémon as well as familiar ones that will look a little different in their new Galarian forms! And for another way to level up your Pokémon, assign them Poké Jobs to complete. You can even play with your Pokémon in Pokémon Camp, just for fun!
- Catch, battle, and trade Pokémon in a new journey in the Galar region
- Choose from three new partner Pokémon and encounter never-before-seen Pokémon
- Unravel the mystery behind the Legendary Pokémon Zacian and Zamazenta
- Players can control the camera in the vast Wild Area
- Team up with other Trainers to participate in Max Raid Battles! (*Nintendo Switch Online membership [sold separately] and Nintendo Account required for online play. Additional games and systems sold separately.)
- Battle wild Dynamax Pokémon in Max Raid Battles and try catching them!
- Exclusively for Nintendo Switch (sold separately)
Pokemon Sword Review
Every inch of this game has been designed based off of the UK (Scotland specifically), from the new and regional-variant pokemon, to the architecture and wilderness. With the leap from handheld to console, the game is able to support sweeping vistas and they GO for it. This is most evident in The Wilds, where the player is given control of the camera for the first time ever as they trek through various terrain with an ever changing weather system. We’ll talk more about the mechanics of The Wilds later, but there is no denying the beauty of this game.
As for the gameplay, there are a variety of quality of life improvements that have been a long time coming. The options menu allows you to turn off the nickname prompts, automatically place newly caught pokemon in the box, and even streamline your controls to so that you only have to use one joy-con. For battles, there are hold-overs from Sun and Moon, such as telling you what moves are strong or weak against your opponents, but bring in new innovations such as the Info Screen, which reminds you what stats have been modified. And further still, the game world itself is vastly improved. Brought back from Pokemon Let’s Go is overworld pokemon that roam through tall grass and in the water, but now they interact a little with their environments.
The storyline is a little odd. Rather than the world altering storylines of some past games in the series, the storyline in this generation is a personal one; your character and their friend want to be The Champion of the Gym Challenge, an annual event similar to a Soccer/Football league. There is a world altering storyline happening in the background, but it always plays second-fiddle to the Gym Challenge storyline. Character arcs focus on people experiencing personal challenges and overcoming them through love and affection. It can be surprisingly touching in some instances.
Pokemon Sword and Shield is less a return to form, and more a return to that first time you picked up a pokemon game. There’s a new surprise around every corner, battles being held in stadiums are the ultimate ideal of pokemon battles, and everything just feels wonderful.
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